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posed a pack of card* scattered about, a* If a same had been interrupted. The elderly man explained that they had been I a yin*? Just before we entered, but be had covered up the carls, thinking that It was his wife who had knocked.To p««« the tim* aw iy we i. waiting: for Mr. Smith a game of poker waa proposed. My frier.d urged me to take a hand, and agreed to back me If I should happ-n to lose. I told them that I did not knf»w how to play pok^r: hardly kn*w one card from another which was a fact.The Hebrew meanwhile had dealt out ahand around, and I was soon holding mv cards with the rest, although I hardlyknow how they worked me into the gam*, unless it was by hypnotism Mv friendevidently did not have a good her !, forhe threw down his cards ar.d came ov-r to where I sat. I had an ace and «om-c^her cards I don’t remember, but rrv frier 1 told me that I ha l an excellent hand. He urged me to bet 1C, and I blir.dly followed his advice. The elde-ly man was the only ore who remained in the earn*. He met mr h*t and raised m • a srr i*1 amount. Yielding to the ur-ffnt advioe of my backer, who seemed confident that my band would win. I dug up a 15 bill and placed it on the table, hell .* aj'ur d by my friend that if T !c«t hewould make the amount s ^d The eld*r-!*-' man ra:-d me and my fr'-ad -«-oured me thit I couA beat him The man with the black mustache appeared • ‘ tnke mv «!de, and cff*-^d ?h* jubll.ir.t a h'ie« that if 1 had an a*e I had him t i* i ■* c‘-:”.r«e I kn*w that I had an no*, but by this Um havlrg com* to ar*•% ‘rationInst a_ 1C Ji f! 4!«J tO Tit up any rr.ore mor*y. My tod# r*us*d the Hebrew to ex-ilv. 'Haven’t you any drafts or checks ey? What have you got In the c i -hal? You are a vtrre winner *•“When it be. arne evident that I would n *t be? mom. the stm s^-ercrd to lose interest in m* The elder!y man swept inthe money on the table, and my frter sarising m I 'Wei! let s get cut of this; I’ve loet IT air-ady.* He grabbed myI and hurried rr» outside, where hepsid me the t* T had lost. At the footthe ! an ■ ? I! sv;.1rg he was aboutbroke. I advised him to go back to his frier.d* upatafra, who had lota of money. He 5*; 1. I guess I wi.I.* *nd vanished I came to sod w%j surprisedy?**enJsf to aee my three Por* and *»c-quoin latte**' lt;vnv*»rsir g in**r*«r*dly on the street corner I asked Detective C”. ’ her wh-'tn I happened to meet a rr -r »• t lat^r, who the elderly man with the rr ■; ?? r n-ch p wv *kf rs was a n d Cudih replied that he was on* of the smothest of conf.denca menii«5+ '99ICgEAMERTNsGOyster and Grill Room.Tke aalr ana la tka etty where prompt service sad aaeaeelled raisin# are son. fctaed wllk rbtrfea.faunastlaaablp the brat.J. J. COLE, Manager,Ho. SIS S»?an4 Av.«#«w*99f994Try It.I-Ib.. 25c.Crescent Mfg. Co. ♦ ♦♦♦ ♦Don’t NeglectThat ColdJf* msttrr h'‘» t ckt it -n.fCaia*. H arme***. I 'i#nuavr.t I air«l leadW»rs, far ('•ncKa.ud *; rar-niJy iwtcnAh to flmri.t, roro-U.«r fatal I.an| !*»#-rtmem it \**x.Aeert All Ikwngrr by Prompily Applying aBenson’s•-oPorousPlastert - tfe« H *+* if- rt and b-t^k «*■» *-■« a??****-**el » «-a ••man* rrt ’ ** It *A«rii, pruapt pr*Trnii«a tiM* SSLgt i— awplisaii'ia^• net mmre rwre. A •»* r* a* *. k i » tnapiriti a£*CL. *«. ri —* — Mata, bet's** nuat- atm.Building for Lease
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Mon, Oct 18, 1897
Page 5
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Caroll K.
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